All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.